Domestic

 A young mother, who admitted to stabbing her seven-month-old baby to death, has been sentenced to an effective six years in jail by the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Eighteen-year-old Nompumelelo Nyati said she had been abused by her

The acquittal of seven people charged with transporting faeces and plotting to dump it at the Western Cape legislature was "surprising". Cape Town mayoral committee member, JP Smith, said that while they believe in the independence of

The SA Human Rights Commission has found that the City of Cape Town's "long-term use of temporary sanitation facilities and lack of a plan for sanitation delivery in the city, violated the rights of residents of Cape Town's poor and working

Social Development Minister, Bathabile Dlamini, says her Department's established a national gender-based violence command centre as part of its response to violence against women and children. Tabling her Department's budget policy statement in

Human Settlements Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, says that the country's housing backlongs currently stand at 2.3 million families and growing. Tabling her Department's budget policy statement in Parliament on Tuesday, she said that government has

Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius was involved in an altercation at a trendy Sandton club over the weekend. His spokesperson, Anneliese Burgess confirmed the incident, saying her client was at the VIP section of the club, when he was approached by a

The death of Nobel laureate and writer Nadine Gordimer has robbed South Africa and the world at large of an astute writer and staunch human rights activist. That's the word from Parliament's portoflio committee on Arts and Culture as tributes

Metal workers union Numsa has rejected the latest wage offer from the Steel Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa. Numsa secretary-general, Irvin Jim, said on Sunday that the strike in the metals and engineering sector is continuing

According to weekend media reports, SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala lied to Parliament about her qualifications. City Press reports that in her CV before the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications, Tshabalala said she graduated